The Kauai County Planning Commission convened on July 14, 2026, at 9:25 a.m. to address subdivision approvals, time extensions, special management area (SMA) permits, zoning permits, and a settlement stipulation. The commission approved all agenda items, often with added conditions, and granted a five-year extension to a North Shore homeowner due to extraordinary challenges.
Here. Commissioner Giovanni. Here. Chair Stretford. I'm not recommended changes to the agenda. Could I have a motion to approve the agenda as written? I approve the agenda as written. I move that I reapprove the agenda as second the motion. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? If not, could I have a voice vote? All of those in favor of it approved the agenda? I. I don't have any members of the public sign up to testify on this agenda item aside from the applicant. Is there any member of the public that would like to testify this item? Um I'll summarize the report for the record. Comments are pending from the County of Kawhi Department of Water, the state historic preservation division, the State Department of Forestry Wildlife, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Is the are there any questions for the planning department? Is the applicant here? Good morning, Planning Commission, subdivision committee members. I'm Max Graham. I represent the applicant in this matter. The applicant is PRW Princeville Development Company LLC. I refer to them as Princeville. And with me is Marin Horace Mendez Herrera, and she is the surveyor slash engineer who's responsible for this project. And so basically we have first we we have no objection to the conditions contained in the report or the recommendations. Next to the east of the Greens subdivision, and in what is called the Eastern Plateau of Phase Two. So Princeville Phase Two is the property from Cahaku Road all the way to Anini Vista subdivision. And this project actually the uh the lot was created as part of the uh Queens on, excuse me, the Greens on Queen Emma's Bluffs subdivision. So that was a subdivision that was done back in I think 2005. Um this was a remnant lot that was left over and uh it contains 46.62 acres. It's in the R6 CZO zoning district, and it's in the VDA. Um it's the last resort type development on the east side of phase two. At one time, phase two was planned for a major development within not only this area but also this what's called the Central Plateau. But that has been uh that is no longer a plan, and instead the Central Plateau has been developed into the North Shore Preserve Ag Subdivision. Um the applicant did prepare a Kapakai analysis done by Cultural Surveys Hawaii Dr. Hal Hammett the finding. It was done uh in accordance with the uh protocols issued by the planning department, and just as a reminder, the the purpose of the Kapacai is to identify and scope valued cultural, historical, and natural resources and traditional and customary native Hawaiian rights within a property to be developed. So first thing you do is try to identify if there are any uh practices or resources. Then number two, uh the uh there's an obligation to uh determine the extent to which the project will impact any such uh resources, and number three, then the the planning uh the uh state or county agency must determine the feasible action to reasonably protect such uh resources and practices. The uh the Kapah Kai analysis that you've been presented with did not find any uh cultural historic natural resources or practices taking place on the property. The the property is um for the last hundred years has been part of the Princeville ranch used uh for various uh purposes, primarily it was sugar cane for a while, and then the last uh fifty years or so it's uh been cattle pasture. Uh it's a level property, it's there's nothing on it, no obvious features. I handed out also this morning and uh archaeological impact uh uh assessment that uh statement, archaeological impact statement that was done uh by uh Dr. Hammett at the time of the original uh greens and meadows subdivision, and there were no uh archaeological features found on this property. Uh there are no Culiana lots located any anywhere near the this area in Princeville. Uh in fact, the uh closest Culiana lots are down on the Anini Beach uh corridor. The um and there are no practices that have been identified, nobody uh stepped forward to indicate any uh uh practices actively taking place. Um burials have ever been found.